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MSI Z270 SLI PLUS ATX Intel Motherboard

MSI Z270 SLI PLUS ATX Intel Motherboard DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost, VR Ready and VR Boost: Best virtual reality experience without latency, reduces motion sickness, Audio Boost 4: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for a true HI-FI experience, MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports NVIDIA SLI™ & AMD Crossfire™, EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot, Twin Turbo M.2 with Steel Armor: Delivering Speeds Up to 32Gb/s, Intel Optane Memory Ready, M.2 Genie: Setting up RAID for M.2 much easier and faster, Lightning USB: Double bandwidth, supports USB 3.1 Gen2 Type A + Type C

Moving on, both boards also feature a very similar connectivity setup. Both have 6 SATA 3 ports along with 2 M.2 slots for storage. PCIe layout is also the same with 3 x 16 and 3 x 1. The main differentiator between the two comes in the new DIMM shielding for the PRO. This is supposed to strengthen the DIMM slots and protect them but it remains to be seen if it’s worthwhile. The PRO also gets a nicer looking VRM heatsink with white tracing.

Overall, I expect the boards to be priced similarly to the current lineup. The PLUS should slot in a tad above Z170A SLI PLUS sits with perhaps a slight launch premium. After all, compared to the Z170 board, the new Z270 SLI PLUS does appear to be much more defined. The regular Z270 SLI will then be somewhere below that but not a whole lot cheaper. I expect we will be getting more details in the weeks to come.

MSI Z270 SLI PLUS ATX Intel Motherboard Specifications

• Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel® Core™ / Pentium® / Celeron® processors for LGA 1151 socket
• Supports DDR4-3800+(OC) Memory
• DDR4 Boost with Steel Armor: Give your DDR4 memory a performance boost
• VR Ready and VR Boost: Best virtual reality experience without latency, reduces motion sickness
• Audio Boost 4: Reward your ears with studio grade sound quality for a true HI-FI experience
• MULTI-GPU: With Steel Armor PCI-E slots. Supports NVIDIA SLI™ & AMD Crossfire™
• EZ Debug LED: Easiest way to troubleshoot
• Twin Turbo M.2 with Steel Armor: Delivering Speeds Up to 32Gb/s, Intel Optane Memory Ready
• M.2 Genie: Setting up RAID for M.2 much easier and faster
• Lightning USB: Double bandwidth, supports USB 3.1 Gen2 Type A + Type C
• X-Boost: Great tool to boost your USB & Storage performance
• Double ESD Protection: Double layer grounding motherboard mounting holes
• Military Class 5, Guard-Pro: Latest evolution in high quality components for best protection and efficiency
• Click BIOS 5: Award-winning BIOS with high resolution scalable font, favorites and search function